RABAUL (New Guinea), Wednesday. — The two-storied building housing the shipping and general offices and merchandise bond and ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Children's Welfare Department receiving depot at Royal Park gave members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Child ...
Article : 272 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Barbed wire, badge buttons, and implements alleged to have been found in a car, were exhibits in the police ...
Article : 403 wordsFor 12 hours to-day Melbourne will be without a City Council. At midnight last night all members of the council retired and the office of ...
Article : 791 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday!—It was explained by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) to-night that the new militia proposals were evolved ...
Article : 224 wordsAs the parties to the dispute failed to reach an agreement yesterday, more than 30 of the Blue-Top Taxi Company's cabs are still ...
Article : 320 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday. —On the first stage of a survey flight to New Zealand, a Pan-American Airways' Boeing Clipper ...
Article : 173 wordsLevy of 5/ on all registered motor vehicles and factories would provide revenue for a casualty hospital in the metropolitan area, said Mr. ...
Article : 362 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — At the time broadcast race results were being received in another part of Parliament House there was not a ...
Article : 152 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The loss in a fire at Rabaul of the records of the Custodian of Expropriated Properties which relate to the properties formerly ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the North Melbourne Court yesterday Elsie Williams, aged 34 years, domestic, of Dudley Flats, was committed for trial on charges ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Three senior staff officers in New South Wales who were given notice last week of their retirement from the ...
Article : 219 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) was questioned in the Legislative Assembly to-day about the decision to hang John ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Mr. Sutherland, S.M., ruled at the Central Police Court to-day that kissing in public did not constitute ...
Article : 149 wordsTwo hundred and eighty-eight football boots will be put away in lockers after the last round of home and home League matches next Saturday. Although some ...
Article : 161 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — When the New South Wales Budget is introduced, probably to-day, increases in the wages tax and special tax ...
Article : 197 wordsVictorian police now had scientific equipment better than any other in the world, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. A. M. ...
Article : 149 wordsA new retail organisation, the Victorian Federation of Retailers' Associations, held its inaugural meeting at the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce last night. Its ...
Article : 225 wordsA young man who appeared at the Brunswick Court yesterday on three charges was alleged to have broken a gate, pulled pickets off the fence of a ...
Article : 217 wordsThe average estate of deceased persons for which probates or letters of administration were completed in Victoria last year was valued at £2,592. There were ...
Article : 95 wordsAfter a short session of scientific papers yesterday, the members of the Australian Dental Association Congress adjourned for sporting ...
Article : 244 wordsFiring tests of the new 3.7 antiaircraft guns adopted for the army, which are being produced at the ordnance factory at Maribyrnong, ...
Article : 155 words"So-called sportsmen" are now "fair game" for the Fisheries and Game Department, the chief inspector (Mr. F. Lewis) said yesterday. All the resources ...
Article : 117 wordsPlans to improve transport facilities at Black Rock and Beaumaris because of the proposed "garden city" in that area were discussed ...
Article : 189 wordsThe portrait of the Duke of Wellington, painted by the famous Spanish artist, Goya, nearly resulted in the [?] famous warrie[?]-statesman's early death, ...
Article : 98 wordsOn the eve of the election I would like to express my very great appreciation of the kindness extended to me by the ratepayers whom I have ...
Article : 208 wordsThe pressing need for scholarship reform will be urged upon the Government by a public meeting called by the National Union of Australian University ...
Article : 151 wordsTwenty-nine permits for twins to travel by rail have been issued by the Railways Department since it announced last week that these permits were available. These ...
Article : 107 wordsPart of the preparations in Victoria against the possible dangers of war is the establishment of a special warning system for use if air raids are threatened. ...
Article : 138 wordsDaniel Maloney, of Dickens street, North Carlton, was fined £2, in default imprisonment for a week, at the North Melbourne Court ...
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Advertising : 467 wordsMany suburban and shire elections will also be held to-day and after the keen campaigning numerous close contests are expected. As in the city, booths will be ...
Article : 323 wordsYALLOURN, Wednesday. — Official notification was received this morning that from to-morrow the Gippsland military forces from Yallourn to Bairnsdale ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Wednesday.—Keen interest was shown to-day in the rising Murrumbidgee River at Wagga. From the early hours of the morning residents ...
Article : 229 wordsAt 9.15 to-night 3UZ and 3SR will present "Swallow Night[?]" The programme will feature a play entitled "Masterpiece," especially written for radio by P. A. ...
Article : 54 wordsAll official forest authorities in Australia will be represented at a conference in Melbourne to-day to discuss bush fire prevention and control. ...
Article : 86 wordsPAYING for a circulation fat in excess of the advertiser's prospective number of buyers is uneconomic. A smaller circulation ...
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